Louisiana Tech baseball lost to Lamar University 6-0 at the Love Shack on March 10, marking the second time this season the Bulldogs have been shut out at home.
The game was close through seven innings, with Lamar holding a narrow lead after an early RBI single. Louisiana Tech managed only one hit during the contest and left several runners stranded despite drawing eight walks. The Cardinals extended their lead with four runs in the eighth inning and added another in the ninth.
Head Coach Lane Burroughs said, “It’s kind of a mystery to me, that we can come out and play like we did on Saturday and Sunday [at South Alabama], and tonight we looked like a totally different team. The guys were in a good place, we had a brief practice yesterday and I thought that went well, then we come out and play the way we did tonight—it’s just a total mystery. I’m at a loss for words—to come out and only get one hit, made a couple of huge defensive mistakes. We only struck out five times and walked eight times, so we had runners on—not many, but we put a lot of easy outs in the air. We didn’t really put any pressure on them. In the first inning when we stole second and then Lunsford went to third with the shift on Trey and nobody covering the base—that was really our only opportunity, and we didn’t cash in. We looked fatigued and tired; I don’t know why. We had a quick practice and they lifted yesterday. College baseball is drunk right now. It’s kind of a mystery right now—there’s a lot of crazy stuff going on all over the country. Teams getting beat that are nationally ranked by teams that only have one or two wins on the year. It’s a wild time, but I can’t worry about that—I’ve got to worry about our team. Again, I’m just totally speechless—not by losing, but by not putting up any fight tonight. We had a great crowd, and we just didn’t show up.”
Pitchers Landon Fontenot, Blake Hooks, and Nate Crider combined for twelve strikeouts during the game—the ninth time this season Louisiana Tech has recorded double-digit punchouts.
This result follows recent games where Louisiana Tech showed stronger performances but struggled offensively against Lamar.
Looking ahead, Louisiana Tech will continue its homestand as it seeks to rebound from this defeat.
